Brief Life History of Lyman Sylvester
When Lyman Sylvester Crane was born on 13 October 1914, in Caldwell, Sumner, Kansas, United States, his father, Walter Albert Crane, was 26 and his mother, Mabel Edna Eshelman, was 18. He lived in Sumner, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Liberty Township, Cowley, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 2 August 2000, at the age of 85, and was buried in Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas, United States.
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- Lyman S Crane, "United States Census, 1940"
- Lyman S Crane, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Lyman Crane in household of Walter Crane, "Kansas State Census, 1915"
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1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
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1937 · The Neutrality Act
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Name Meaning
English: nickname, most likely for a tall, thin man with long legs, from Middle English cran ‘crane’ (the bird), Old English cran, cron. The term included the heron until the introduction of a separate word for the latter in the 14th century.
Manx: see Craine .
Dutch: variant of Krane ‘crane’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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